[daip] DAT drives, AIPS, and a Macintosh

[Geoff Bower]

Eric Greisen wrote:
> Geoffrey Bower writes:
>
>  > I'm looking at purchasing a Mac with DDS drive for loading VLBA FITS 
>  > data.  Do you (or does anyone) have any experience with making this work 
>  > AIPS?  Any recommendations on hardware, drivers, etc?
>  > 
>
> My only experience is that AIPS requires separate Z routines for tapes
> for every architecture for which they were implemented.  They have
> never been implemented for Macs which is a shame.  FITS backups are
> still a very good idea even if the input data can usually be obtained
> by copying files over the Internet.  But an aips implementation will
> probably be "interesting" - perhaps in the Chinese torture sort of
> way.
>
> Eric Greisen
>   
Hi Eric,

Thanks for the information.  It looks like the way to go with Mac & AIPS 
is load FITS files directly from disk file.

Cheers,

Geoff